The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...


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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and mat...
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The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
REBECCA WEST
I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for ...
REBECCA MAKKAI
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a g...
REBECCA WEST
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
REBECCA WEST
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pros...
REBECCA WEST
When I get a brand new bag, I wear it for months and months.
REBECCA GAYHEART
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
REBECCA WEST
Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
REBECCA WEST
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
REBECCA WEST
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is...
REBECCA WEST
The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social med...
REBECCA MACKINNON
The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and ...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.
REBECCA MCNUTT
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST
She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent...
REBECCA WEST
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the p...
REBECCA WEST
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers j...
REBECCA WEST
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent di...
REBECCA WEST
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
REBECCA WEST
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vi...
REBECCA WEST
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
REBECCA WEST
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ...
REBECCA WEST
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
REBECCA FALLS
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's...
REBECCA WEST
He is every other inch a gentleman.
REBECCA WEST
Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better...
REBECCA WEST
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sle...
REBECCA WEST
Being classy is my teenage rebellion.
REBECCA MCKINSEY
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform ...
REBECCA WEST
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of ...
REBECCA WEST
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from ...
REBECCA WEST
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
REBECCA WEST
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of...
REBECCA PIDGEON
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
REBECCA WEST
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
REBECCA MACKINNON
My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for g...
REBECCA LOBO
Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe ...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18...
REBECCA HALL
I'm really inspired by the show 'Future Boy Conan' from the '70s. It's a really ...
REBECCA SUGAR
Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's...
REBECCA TRAISTER
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.
REBECCA HALL
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make...
REBECCA PIDGEON
As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mecha...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the cou...
REBECCA TRAISTER